Washington Post Praises BRAC Founder, F.H. Abed, for Oral Rehydration Salt Initiative in Bangladesh

"A pinch of salt. A fistful of sugar. A half liter of water."

Margie Mason, in an article that appeared on the WashingtonPost.com on Sunday, recites the ingredients for what she calls the "Poor Man's Gatorade" that is saving lives across Bangladesh. According to Mason, children and adults alike know the recipe by heart and know when to use it, combating the potentially fatal effects of diarrhea that claim about 1.5 million kids a year

The article references Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder of BRAC, and his personal efforts to spread the word:

As founder of Dhaka-based BRAC, one of the world's largest non-governmental aid organizations, Abed trained a small army of women to spread the ORS recipe to millions of households across Bangladesh in the 1980s.

"I know of nobody else who's tried to do this. Everybody came here and looked at the problem, and it was mind boggling for them to think that one could go to every household and do it,' says Abed, who was recently knighted in England for his development work. 'I think this could have a similar kind of impact in Africa."

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Abed's rehydration efforts were also covered by PBS in it's RX for Survival series. "The Story of BRAC" shows how BRAC is transforming lives by reaching out to millions of people in villages and helping them out of the vicious circle of poverty: